I'm sure the broad thesis of the book - that the role of dopamine is key in a lot of human behaviour - is correct. They may not necessarily be ones that make us happy, we might get a dopamine rush through the desire of having a doughnut or a nice meal or sleeping with somebody that we desire or taking drugs. Sometimes this can be a scary thing; how many great artists and scientists from history do we know who have had addictions or compulsions they were perpetually unable to overcome? No meu ponto de vista o livro acertou em evitar perder o leitor através de explicações detalhadas da fisiologia por trás do mecanismo doparminérgico e da ação dos outros neurotransmissores relevantes. Was passiert eigentlich im Kopf während des Datings und warum ändert sich Verliebtheit nach 18 Monaten?

Though written for ordinary people, the narrative is sprinkled throughout with dazzling new insights that will appeal equally to specialists. Additionally, this book reaches too far trying to explain too much through too little: love, sex, drug use, creativity, madness, political preference, progress, immigration, you name it - dopamine influences and even determines human behavior in almost any situation. Lieberman and Long have created a road map for all those wrestling between insatiable longing and the here and now. It was liberals who tended to be impulsive, authoritarian, and sensation-seeking – and conservatives were charitable and social. When we are scared, our amygdala kicks in but when we start thinking rationally, dopamine has taken over.The book then goes on to look at politics and how many more liberal leaning people who often are more creative but like change and often have increased rates of marriages are also driven by dopamine which might be one of the reasons why these individuals become more related to their politics and their viewpoint. Luckily there are other neurotransmitters that might help us to maintain a relationship, but that’s not the role of dopamine. Thousands of years later, it is the source of our most basic behaviors and cultural ideas―and progress itself.

The bigger and better the surprise, the more dopamine our brain releases – and the more pleasure we feel. D. is professor and vice chair for clinical affairs in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at George Washington University. E adevărat, tema hormonilor mă fascinează, ei fiind cei care controlează atât de multe în organismul uman, iar un mic dezechilibru ar putea avea urmări dezastruoase.I enjoy popular science books that give some gritty scientific information, such as the ones by Nick Lane, Matthew Cobb, Roger Penrose or Graham Farmelo. I hope to find balanced and reasonable books about aspects of dopamine-conditioned behavior, the role of dopamine in mental health, and its impact on neurological diseases soon. He stretched the truth and oversimplified to make readers believe dopamine was the contributing factor in many ailments when the truth is SO very complex and diverse. Aș recomanda înainte de lecturarea acestei cărți, alte două cărți care prezintă o descriere a mai multor hormoni: "Creierul fericit" de L Breuning sau "Excitat.

Long present a potentially life-changing proposal: Much of human life has an unconsidered component that explains an array of behaviors previously thought to be unrelated, including why winners cheat, why geniuses often suffer with mental illness, why nearly all diets fail, and why the brains of liberals and conservatives really are different. For some people it’s an injection of heroin, for others it’s getting on an airplane to a vacation destination. Could it be because people without any medical or scientific background find it difficult to get through? Nobel Prize winning mathematician John Nash made fundamental contributions to game theory, differential geometry, and economics, and also lived with schizophrenia (he is portrayed by Russell Crowe in the 2001 film A Beautiful Mind based on the book of the same name). Why do we crave what we don't have rather than feel good about what we do--and why do fools fall in love?

Our brain simply loves to get high and for a long time we couldn´t get good stuff from the outer world ( it must have been terrible) when we were still stonagey and before, but we had those fine centers for own opioids, own cannabinoids, but especially the other hormones that aren´t so fancy. Not light reading, but if you want some insight into why people do what they do and how they are powerless to do otherwise, take a look. Once you understand the power and peril of dopamine, you'll better understand the human condition itself. On the one hand, dopamine has made us Homo Sapiens the dominate species on the planet by giving our ancestors “the ability to create tools, invent abstract sciences, and plan far into the future.